Bonds to return to San Francisco with Marlins

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MIAMI — Barry Bonds bicycles across the Rickenbacker Causeway on his daily morning ride, Biscayne Bay on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other, a complicated past behind him.

Most of the time he looks ahead — to this weekend, for example. He’s heading for home.

Bonds will return to San Francisco for a three-game series, still wearing orange and black but now in a different role with a different team. The former Giants slugger will be in the visitors dugout as hitting coach for the Miami Marlins, and he doesn’t think it’s as strange as it sounds.

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“It’s not going to feel strange,” Bonds said. “That’s my home. That will always be my home. I don’t feel strange at home.”

He’s making a second home in Miami, and all indications are he enjoys his new job. Every time a TV camera shows Bonds during a game, which is often, he seems to be grinning.

A snapshot moment: When leadoff hitter Dee Gordon ended a recent 16-pitch at-bat with a single, Bonds clapped, waved his fist and shouted, “Woo!” Gordon later came around to score, and Bonds greeted him with a gleeful …

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